2 days ago
Remote, BrazilStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own platform and cloud architecture across AWS, including networking, compute, storage, and environment strategy.
- Drive cloud modernization, migration, re-platforming, deployment standardization, scalability, and resilience improvements.
- Create reference architectures, guardrails, reusable templates, libraries, tooling, and golden paths that enable engineering autonomy.
- Establish reliability standards including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident response, and postmortems.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, tracing, dashboards, runbooks, and operational readiness to reduce MTTR and recurring incidents.
- Identify systemic performance and operational bottlenecks and lead cross-team initiatives to address them.
- Define architecture reviews, design documentation, coding standards, testing strategy, CI/CD quality gates, and production-readiness practices.
- Mentor senior engineers, tech leads, and emerging technical leaders through complex designs and tradeoffs.
Requirements
- Direct production ownership of platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering on AWS.
- Deep OpenTofu or Terraform proficiency, including module authoring, state management, workspace strategy, remote backends, and CI/CD integration.
- Strong Kubernetes operations experience with EKS or AKS, Helm, admission controllers, RBAC, network policies, and autoscaling.
- Hands-on observability experience with at least two of Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Datadog, or OpenTelemetry, including SLI/SLO definition and alert engineering.
- Experience authoring GitHub Actions pipelines, designing reusable workflows, and owning container build and scan pipelines.
- Experience with GitOps using ArgoCD or Flux for Kubernetes continuous delivery and progressive delivery patterns such as canary and blue-green deployments.
- Internal developer platform experience with Backstage or an equivalent developer portal, GitHub, scaffolding templates, service catalogs, or self-service provisioning tooling.
- Security-first experience with policy-as-code, IaC scanning, secrets management, container hardening, and shift-left security practices.
- Strong communication and documentation skills, including presenting architecture decisions to engineering peers and leadership.
- Experience with LLM API integration or model serving.
Benefits
- Company-paid medical insurance, mental health programs, and five undocumented sick-leave days per year.
- Internal meetups, conferences, workshops, Udemy access, language courses, and company-paid certifications.
- Long-term employment with 20 working days of paid vacation and local bank holidays.
- 100% remote work mode.
- Internal Mobility Program and opportunities to change projects for professional growth.
- Work on large-scale projects with international and fast-growing clients.
- Friendly, collaborative environment with an open-door policy, informal atmosphere, and regular team-building events.
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About Ciklum
Ciklum is an IT services firm that builds custom digital products and provides nearshore engineering teams, QA, DevOps, data analytics, and UX for enterprises and high-growth startups. It operates a services model spanning product engineering, e-commerce solutions, and managed delivery centers. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in London, the privately held company serves global clients including Just Eat and Zurich Insurance.